“Brooklyn” In the 1950s, a young woman (Saoirse Ronan) leaves her mother and Irish homeland behind to pursue the American dream.111 minutes (PG-13)

“Creed” Sylvester Stallone relinquishes the creative reins of his most beloved character for the first time. Fruitvale Station writer-director Ryan Coogle takes over and finds out what happens when Rocky Balboa becomes a trainer and mentor to the up-and-coming boxer Adonis (Michael B. Jordan), the son of Balboa’s former opponent Apollo Creed. 132 minutes (PG-13)

“The Good Dinosaur” Pixar Animation’s second feature film this year (after “Inside Out”) finds out what would have happened if the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs never hit our planet. 100 minutes (PG)

* “Goosebumps” Jack Black plays author R.L. Stine in this scary-funny adaptation of his popular children’s horror novels. 103 minutes (PG-13)

* “Heart of a Dog” An impressionistic and musical meditation on a pets death with prelude by the artist Laurie Anderson, who enjoyed a very deep relationship with her dog, with following soundtrack. 75 minutes

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” Civil war finally breaks out, with grim consequences, in the final chapter of the film series based on Suzanne Collins’ novels. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta (Josh Hutchinson) and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) lead the charge against the villainous President Snow (Donald Sutherland). 137 mkinutes (PG-13)

“Love the Coopers” Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Diane Keaton, Anthony Mackie and Amanda Seyfried are among the members of four generations of a family who reunite to celebrate Christmas. Adorable hijinks and heartwarming melodrama ensue. 120 minutes (PG-13)

“The Martian” Matt Damon is an astronaut stranded on Mars, and Kristen Wiig, Jessica Chastain and Chiwetel Ejiofor are among the NASA employees trying to get him home safely in director Ridley Scott’s thrilling adaptation of Andy Weir’s best-selling novel. 141 minutes (PG-13)

* “Meet the Patels” A documentary that began as a home movie and ended as a warm and funny feature. It turns one man’s culturally specific journey into the world of arranged marriages into a lively, engaging, universal story made with an unmistakable sense of fun. 88 minutes (PG)s

“The Night Before” Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie are three longtime friends who celebrate Christmas Eve every year by heading out on a rampage of R-rated debauchery. 101 minutes (R)

“The Peanuts Movie” Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home. 93 minutes (G)

“Spectre” Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, and he’s bringing his “Skyfall” director Sam Mendes with him in the latest (and, at two and a half hours, longest) 007 installment. 148 minutes (PG-13)

“Spotlight” The saga of how the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for uncovering sexual abuse by Catholic priests, the film is mightily impressive not only because of the importance of the story it tells but also because of how much effort and skill went into bringing it to the screen in the best possible way 128 minutes (R)

* “Suffragette” Though ably acted (especially by star Carey Mulligan) and indisputably on the side of the angels, this story of a wife and mother completely radicalized by the women’s suffrage movement is also more dead-on earnest and schematic than it needs to be. 107 minutes (PG-13)

* “Theeb” In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. 100 minutes (NR)

“The 33” Patricia Riggen (“Under the Same Moon”) directs this drama recounting the harrowing experiences of a group of 33 men who were trapped underground after the collapse of a Chilean mine. 127 minutes (PG-13)

“Trumbo” The film paints an engaging portrait of a left-wing crusader toiling in one of Hollywood’s most shameful eras, managing to re-create both the glamour and the oppressive mood of post-World War II America. 124 minutes (R)

“Victor Frankenstein” James McAvoy is the mad scientist with a God complex and Daniel Radcliffe is his loyal assistant, Igor, in this new take on Mary Shelley’s classic monster. 109 minutes (PG)

— Compiled from wire reports

* Ends Thursday